We have all had troubles with Java and quite frankly its been a challenge to keep up with all the changes. Between Java 7 Update 10 through to update 45 there have been changes in features and functions that affect how IT administrators deploy the software in an enterprise, let alone general software functionality (wont be covering that). I think the best outcome of all of this is Oracle’s commitment to supporting enterprise deployments of Java.
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Who hates Java? (how to remove all Java installations on your Network)
My colleague who is rightly paranoid about security has a dislike for the buggy software from Java, so one day he shoots me off a link to a forum where he found a VB script to remove ALL versions of java from a PC. Fantastic i thought, now we just have to put it in our environment!
Here is the forum from where we got a VB script from:
http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=29809
So they guys on the forum post did all the hard work, all I did was apply it to our situation. Here is what we wanted to achieve:
- Run the script on every PC (client) in our network – we didnt have alot of users that actually required Java so we decided to remove everything, and only install it (in a managed way) to the users that required it.
- Make sure the whole script did not run EVERY time the PC was turned on.
- Output the log files somewhere centrally so we can monitor the uninstall process.
- Provide a managed Java deployment solution via GroupPolicy